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Quotes About Insist

There's a nook around back," I said. "It's an emergency exit, so no one ever uses it." "I thought you didn't date guys from school?" "Doesn't mean I don't know the make-out spots." "Make-out? I thought we were talking. But if you insist…
~ Kelley Armstrong
If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these limitation on the power of Congress and to insist that our leaders obey.
~ Michael Farris
But your daughter doesn't say she's a demon; she insists she's the devil himself...
~ William Peter Blatty
I offered her the benefit of my company this New Year's Eve, but informed her that as of midnight I should much like to insist that she refers to me as Master Oscar at all times. For that is whom I am, and I can't stress enough the importance of being Oscar.
~ Dawn French
I don't know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.
~ Deb Caletti
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it…..
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The Obama Administration continues to talk about the 'policies of the past' and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.
~ Marsha Blackburn
Private,' he said firmly. 'Family matter. Go have a drink.' 'Whose family?' 'A death in yours, if you insist.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Jubal waved the man back. "Private," he said firmly. "Family matter. Go have a drink." "Whose family?" "A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
You wanted me to insist. You wanted me to win the argument." "Wanted is too simple," Susan said. She had shifted her gaze from her martini to the ongoing afternoon outside her kitchen window. "I wanted and didn't want. I needed both my autonomy and your protection. By acting the way I did, I managed to have both.
~ Robert B. Parker
But whatever form it takes, we must always insist that antisemitism has never made sense and never will. Fight it. But don't elevate it or its purveyors in importance.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
A heart warmed with zeal for God, and breathing after the salvation of men, will not plead and insist upon rights and privileges in bar to this design. Those manifestly
~ Jen Hatmaker
You mean why am I forcing you to come with me? The answer is simple. I want you.
~ Jennifer Blake
Never take what's offered, always ask for more.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Perhaps we get, not what we deserve, but what we demand.
~ Emma Donoghue
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
~ Ana Castillo
Southerners who had insisted on states' rights now demanded federal intervention to enforce what they considered their property rights.
~ Andrew Delbanco
The very people who are most ardent against entangling alliances insist most fanatically upon our doing one hundred things a year on humanitarian grounds. . . .
~ Adam Hochschild
A nation that has forgotten the quality of leadership it took to make a civilization great in the past is not likely to insist on greatness in its leaders today.
~ Andy Andrews
Create Dangerously." And, as I ponder the fusing of servant and leader, it seems a dangerous creation: dangerous for the natural servant to become a leader, dangerous for the leader to be servant first, and dangerous for a follower to insist on being led by a servant.
~ Robert K. Greenleaf